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BIOGRAPHIES OF PARTICIPANTS
Hélène Ahrweiler
President, University of Europe
Ken Caplan
Director of BPD (Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation)
Ken is the Director of the BPD, a small, not-for-profit organization that works with and supports responsible partnerships between different sectors to help meet the Millennium Development Goals around water and sanitation. Ken also currently serves as a tutor on the University of Cambridge Cross-Sector Partnership Course. Prior to moving to the UK in 1998, Ken worked in Thailand and Vietnam for 8 years with both donors and NGOs on issues including urban infrastructure, social inclusion, and partnerships around labour standards. Ken holds a Masters degree in International Development and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service.
Georges Charpak
Physics Nobel Prize, Member of the "Académie des Sciences" and the European Council for Nuclear Research
French physicist, Graduate of the Ecole des Mines, Paris. He turned to research when he entered the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1948. He was also working at the Collège de France (1948-1955), with Frederic Joliot. In 1959, he joined the CERN in Geneva (European Council for Nuclear Research) where he invented new types of particle detectors, including the multiwire proportional chamber, known as « Charpak's chamber » (1968) for the real time tracking of elementary particles. The speed, reliability, and processing capacity of the "Charpak chambers" have made it possible to study extremely rare events occurring during interaction between high energy particles. Since 1980, Georges Charpak has been studying applications in biology and medicine of these instruments, in particular for medical imagery. He became a member of the French Science Academy in 1985. He was awarded the Physics Nobel prize in 1992.
William C. Clark
Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University.
William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A biologist by training, he now teaches and does research on science and technology policy for development. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of both the MacArthur Prize and Germany's Humboldt Prize.
William Dab
Director-General, French Ministry of Health
Director-General of the Direction Générale de la Santé and Professor of the "Hygiene and Safety" Chair of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, William Dab is a physician, ex resident at the Hôpitaux de Paris, holder of a doctorate in Science (Epidemiology). He worked at the Observatoire Régional de Santé d'Ile-de-France. He then taught risk evaluation at the École Nationale de la Santé Publique. He was Deputy Director of the Department of Medical Studies of EDF-GDF, and has represented the Association for the Prevention of Atmospheric Pollution. His personal research has been directed at epidemiological surveillance, the consequences of terrorism, AIDS, and environment-related risks (radiation, geology, air-conditioning, water heating for sanitary uses, quality of inside and outside air). He has authored three books and approximately a hundred scientific publications.
Harvey V. Fineberg
President, Institute of Medicine (USA)
Tore Godal
Executive Secretary GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization)
A Norwegian-born immunologist, he is former head of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), and has also served as the initiating project manager for the Roll Back Malaria Project and as special advisor to Gröo Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Health Organization. In this discussion with IAVI Report Senior Writer Emily Bass, he describes what GAVI has learned about establishing effective vaccination programs in developing countries and how these lessons could apply more generally to programs that might follow in its footsteps, including the GFATM and future AIDS vaccine distribution schemes.
Paul-Louis Girardot
President, Institut Veolia Environnement
After working in water distribution in Morocco from 1958 to 1963, this engineering graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) joined Compagnie Générale des Eaux in 1964, where he stayed for the rest of his career, servign as General Manager form 1981 to 1998, He currently serves as member of the Veolia Environnement Board of Directors.
Velvl W Greene
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health Ben Gurion University
Dr. Greene was born and educated in Canada, served in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, did post-graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, and taught Microbiology, Public Health, and Epidemiology to tens of thousands of university students in Canada, America, and Israel. Though his research career was focused almost entirely on the study and control of Nosocomial infections, he was also one of the early participants in NASA's Exobiology program and was the first director of the Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics. He and his wife, Gail, live in Beersheva, Israel.
Pierre Marc Johnson
Former Premier of Quebec, Special advisor on environmental issues to international organizations.
Jack T. Jones
School Health Specialist Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, School Health and Youth Health Promotion WHO (World Health Oorganization)
Work prior to joining WHO: Mr Jones was employed by the Centreers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1967-2001. He held two field posts from 1967-73 and worked out of CDC Headquarters from 1974-2001.
Work in WHO: Mr Jones was seconded by CDC to WHO in 1991 to promote school health as a viable public health intervention. From 1995-2002, he served as WHO's School Health Team Leader with responsibilities for strengthening the Organization's capacity for school health. During this period, the school health team launched the WHO Information Series on School Health, initiated development of the Global School-based Student Health Survey; developed WHO's Rapid Assessment and Action Planning Process; created networks and alliances for concerted action; and launched county-level capacity building efforts, including nation-wide training programmes to improve school health/HIV prevention efforts in Africa.
Bernard Kouchner
Former French Minister of Health, Professor, Conservatoire Nationa des Arts et Métiers
Physician (gastroenterology). He went to Nigeria in May, 1967, shortly after completing his studies. He was resident for the Red Cross and the Secours Médical Français during the conflict in Biafra. The Nigerian army was slaughtering the civilian population, including the wounded. Unwilling witnesses, doctors were requested not to divulge any information. In the face of such atrocities, silence was unacceptable. At this point, Bernard Kouchner entered the media and public affairs scene. He was the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières in 1971, but left the association in 1979 because of a disagreement. Médecins du Monde was created the following year. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Secretary for Health, and the following year became France's Minister of Health. He was elected on Michel Rocard's European list in 1995, so that the "French Doctor" continued to appear on the political scene. As of 1998, combining politics and humanitarian missions, Bernard Kouchner was designated Special Representative to head the United Nations Mission in Kosovo where he served from 1999 to 2001. When he returned to France, he joined the Socialist Party and continued his political activities.
Philippe Kourilsky
Director-General, Institut Pasteur, Professor at the Collège de France.
Koïchiro Matsuura
Director-General, UNESCO
Born in 1937, Koïchiro Matsuura's early years were formatively influenced by war and its consequences. He grew up in the district of Yamaguchi, just two hours by road from Hiroshima.
He studied law at the University of Tokyo and economics at Haverford College (USA) before embarking on a long diplomatic career. He held senior diplomatic posts in Washington DC and Hong Kong before becoming Director-General of the Economic Cooperation Bureau and then the North American Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, representing Japan in the G-7 Summit sherpa group from 1992 to 1994. He served as Ambassador of Japan to France from 1994 to 1999.
Mr Matsuura first became involved with UNESCO as Chairperson of its World Heritage Committee. Subsequently, in November 1999, he was elected the eighth Director-General of UNESCO, the first person of Asian origin to hold this post. He has sought to revitalize the Organization's programmes in education, culture, the natural sciences, the social and human sciences, and information and communication. His term of office has been marked by a highly successful reform process that has helped to restore UNESCO's reputation and effectiveness.
Mr Matsuura has also published many works in the fields of economic cooperation and development, bilateral relations and diplomacy.
Jacqueline McGlade
Executive Director, European environment Agency
Jacqueline McGlade became Executive Director of the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen in 2003; she is on leave from her post as Professor in Environmental Informatics in the Department of Mathematics at University College London. Until 2003, she was a Board member of the Environment Agency of England and Wales with responsibility for Thames Region, navigation and science. Formerly she was Director of the NERC Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences, Professor of Biological Sciences at Warwick, Director of Theoretical Ecology at the Forschungszentrum Juelich and senior scientist in the federal government of Canada. Her research has focussed on the spatial and non linear dynamics of ecosystems, with particular reference to marine resources, climate change and scenario development. In her non-academic life she is a mother of two daughters, director of a software development company and has written and presented a range of radio and television programmes.
Doctor Loic Monjour
President, Eau, Agriculture et Santé en milieu Tropical (EAST) (MD) (Ph D)
Professor of tropical medicine and public health.
President of the EAST (Eau, Agriculture et Santé en milieu Tropical)
Vice - President of the Health commission of the Académie de l'Eau
Freddy Karup Pedersen
President of Danish Red Cross
Chairman of the health Commission of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Education: medical doctor 1971 (University of Copenhagen)
Speciality: paediatrics 1982 (Danish National Board of Health)
Doctoral thesis: Pneumococcal vaccination, University of Copenhagen 1985
Head of University Clinic of Paediatrics Copenhagen 1987
Ppresident of Danish Red Cross 1997
Chairman of the health Commission of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies 2001
Member of the standing commission of the International Red Cross 2003
Renaud Piarroux
Professor of parasitology and mycology, Director of the Rural health and Environment Group (SERF - Santé et Environnement Rural) at the University of France-Comté
Paediatrician, specialising in infectious and tropical diseases, Doctor of Sciences in microbiology. Professor at the Université de France-Comté. He now directs the department of parasitology and mycology of the CHU (teaching hospital) of Besançon. Director of SERF (Research unit for rural health and environment, Université de Franche-Comté). He has particularly studied the transmission of disease working in the INSERM 399 research unit (immunology and genetics of parasitic diseases) in Marseilles and then at SERF. He has also participated in the fighting epidemics in developing countries, (Sub-Saharan Africa, Comores, Middle-East, Central America) in the course of humanitarian missions as Head of Mission with Médecins du Monde and later as epidemics consultant to the association.
Henri Proglio
Chairman and CEO, Veolia Environnement
Henri Proglio is a graduate of the HEC business school in Paris. He joined Compagnie Générale des Eaux in 1972 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of CGEA in 1990. He was appointed Executive Vice President of Vivendi Universal and President and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi Water in 1999. He became Chairman of Veolia Environnement's Management Board in 2000 then Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer in April 2003.
Henri Proglio is a member and director of the main subsidiaries of the group Veolia, in France and abroad. He is also a member and director of main French companies such as Elior, Casino, Thales, CNES...
Today Mr. Proglio chairs the France- China Committee (2004/2005) and is a member of the French National Committee for Sustainable Development.
Mamphela Ramphele
Director-General, World Bank (until 2004)
Mamphela Ramphele is one of the four Managing Directors at the World Bank. She oversees the strategic positioning and the operations of the World Bank Institute (WBI) and tThe Vice-Presidency of External Affairs (EXT). WBI is responsible for the Bank's work on knowledge and capacity enhancement. She is principally involved on matters of knowledge and socio-economic development with major responsibility for the relationship and program implementation of the Development Gateway. In addition, Ms. Ramphele leads the formulation of the Bank's policies on health and education, and is in charge of integrating, monitoring, and evaluating progress with regard to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Recently, she leads the formulation of the Bank's policy framework on the social dimension of globaliszation , including human rights.
A South African-born medical doctor, Mamphela Ramphele is also a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. She also holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology, a BCom degree in Administration, and diplomas in Tropical Health & Hygiene and Public Health. She has written many books and articles on education, health, and social development for which she has received numerous prizes and awards.
Paul Reiter
Head of the Insect and Infectious diseases Research Unit - Institut Pasteur
Paul Reiter is a specialist in the biology, ecology, behaviour and control of mosquitoes, and the transmission dynamics and epidemiology of the diseases they transmit. He joined the Institut Pasteur in 2003 after 22 years as a Research Scientist at the US Centreers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is actively involved in the international debate on climate change.
Amartya Sen
Nobel Prize for Economics, Lamont University Professor, Harvard University.
Benoît Silve
Director-General Bioforce
Engineer, graduate of the Ecole Navale and of the US Naval War College, Master of Arts (International Relations - University of Salve Regina, RI-USA). After a career as a fighter pilot and commanding officer in the French Navy, (Captain, now retired), in 2003 he joined the Institute "Bioforce Development", of which he is the Director. He also teaches on the subjects of management, project management, and evaluation. Throughout his career, he has focused on natural resources. On a more personal note, nature has played an important role in his life, and in particular the high altitude mountain setting, generating harmony between man and the environment.